Casual fans, mainstream media, they all just discovered Keion Bell and his dunking prowess when he sailed over seven people at last week’s Midnight Madness in Malibu. Good for them; good for him. But let’s be honest: Along with BallisLife, we’ve known about dude since before he did this at last year’s Midnight Madness. Anyway, enough horn blowing. If you want to know more about Pepperdine’s Bell, check out this In Your Face that ran in SLAM 138.–Ed.

To celebrate Midnight Madness last year at Pepperdine, Keion Bell hopped over five teammates. What could the high-flying Bell do to top that at this year’s Madness? How about clearing seven (!) people. No doubt you’ll be seeing Bell on SportsCenter this season.

Dunk contests are a major part of Midnight Madness. And, as a matter of fact, we’ve seen this sort of thing from Bell before. Only this time, instead of dunking over (just) a few teammates, he leaped a full handful. There’s much more to look forward to from last year’s All-Freshman first teammer and ’09-10 All-WCC preseason first teamer, though. Bell says he’s about to step-up his leadership and… improving that dreadful 0.6 A/TO ratio from last season.